Tran Van Cung

Tran Van Cung (1906-1977) was a Vietnamese revolutionary who was the secretary of the first communist cell in Vietnam.

Biography
Tran Van Cung was born in Nghi Loc, Annam, French Indochina in 1906 to a family of Vietnamese revolutionaries; he was the older brother of future PAVN Colonel General Tran Van Quang. While attending the College de Vinh, Ho Chi Minh introduced him to the theory of communism, and he became the secretary of the first communist cell in Vietnam in 1929. He led a meeting of the Communist Party of Indochina that same year, and he would later become a senior figure within the Communist Party of Vietnam as well. Tran died in 1977.